Lenora de Barros was born in São Paulo, Brazil and graduated with a degree in linguistics from the University of São Paulo. She published her first book, "Onde Se Vê" (Where One Sees), in 1983. She has exhibited at the 17th São Paulo Biennial where she was one of the first artists to use videotext. From 1990 to 1991, she lived in Milan, where she exhibited her productions from 1975 to 1990 in "Poetry is a Nothing Thing." Barros participated in the 1998 São Paulo Biennial with Arnaldo Antunes and Walter Silveira, with her poetic installation "The Multimillionaire Contribution of All the Mistakes." For the show "The Overexcited Body" (Palazzo Arengario, Milan, 2001) she – along with the musician Cid Campos – created the sound installation "(Des)Encorpa" [(Un)Body]. Her first one-woman show, "What's New, Anew, Pussycat?" was exhibited at the Galeria Milan, São Paulo, in March 2001. Currently, she is working on "To See Aloud" a book collection of her most recent productions.